Alexe

Alexe Tygra

(b. 15 October 1977, France)

Alexe (Tygra) is a self-taught comic artist from Nantes, with a passion for both arts and music. She studied to play the alt sax, but also Plastic Arts, Graphic Arts and 3D Arts. After her education, she worked for several creative, commercial and videogame studios during a period of six years, before embarking on a career in illustration in 2002. She started out with contributions to fanzines, but later also to magazines and pockets (Khimaira, Semic).

She was also a colorist for comic series like 'Paradis Perdu' and 'Les Princes d'Arclan'. As a comic artist, she made her debut in the collective series 'Légendes de la Table Ronde' for Soleil Celtic. Her first series was 'Lancelot', another comic in the Celtic genre with scripts by Jean-Luc Istin and later Olivier Peru, that was published between 2008 and 2013. Her next project is working with Ange on 'La Geste des chevaliers Dragons'.